Voice-producing apparatus for dolls and other toy figures



July 3,1921; 1,675,832

E. F. STEINER VOICE PRODUCING APPARATUS FOR DOLLS AND OTHER TOY FIGURES Filed April 14, 1927 BY v 6 3% ATTORNEY Patented July 3, 1928.

1,675,832 PATENT ori-ice.

UNITED STATES ERICH FERDINAND STEINER, OF SONNEBERG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO KARL OHL- BAUM & SON INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

VOICE-PRODUCING APPARATUS FOR DOLIiS AND OTHER TOY FIGURES.

Application filed April 14, 1927, Serial No. 183,870, and in Germany December 3, 1926.

The present invention relates to a voice producing apparatus for dolls and other toy figures, the air bellows of which is actliated by a pressure weight.

An object of the invention is to provide an improved apparatus of the character described including a bellows and pressure weight formed of independent parts which can be separately manufactured economically and readily assembled as required on a commercially profitable basis. The bellows, which forms an independent part of the improved apparatus permits easy insertion and proper setting of the weight and may therefore be manufactured in any desired numbers for stock, each bellows being provided according to requirement with the necessary weight for proper operation, which weight is enclosed either under a bellows cover furnished with a voice producing pipe, or carries such pipe.

The improved construction of the apparatus embodying the invention thus permits simple manufacturing methods of produc v tion, and also ensures the production of different voices adapted to the manner in which the voice pipes arranged in the covers or in the covering heads are turned, the same bel low parts being used.

A further object of the invention is to provide a bellows construction having diagonal folds between a lower base plate and,

an upper ring, said folds being formed to serve as a winding which when the bellows is inflated or deflated produces a turning movement of a part thereof relative a base or stationary part. This construction permits the use of a relatively thick material for making the bellows. The increased thickness of material combined with the diagonal fold construction strengthens the ap- .paratus and assures a vertical bellows movement without requiring the usual center guide rod running through the apparatus.

Still another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of the character described comprising fewv and simple parts, which shall be cheap to manufacture, easy to assemble to form a rugged structure, and practical and eflicient to a high degree in use.

Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

' mg claims.

111 the accompanying drawing, in which "is shown one of the various possible illustrative embodiments of this invention,

Figs. 1 and 2 are front elevational and plan views of a voice producing apparatus embodying the invention, showing parts broken away to expose the interior construction;

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the bellows with parts broken away.

Fig. 3" is a partial bottom view of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the pressure weight.

Fig. 3 is an elevational view of the cover member with parts broken away to show the voice pipe.

Figs. 4 and 5 are front elevation and plan views of a modification, partly broken away.

Fig. 6" is a front elevational view of the bellows showing a modified construction.

Fig. (5 is a bottom plan view of Fig. 6.

Fig. 6 is a front elevational view of a modified construction of the pressure weight with parts broken away to show the voice pipe.

Referring in detail to the drawing, a bagshaped bellows 1 has one end closed by a base plate 2 and has a separate strengthening or rim ring 3 fitted into and securely attached to the other end of the bellows.

This ring 3 forms a receptacle in which a pressure weight 4 is retained. As seen from Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 3 3?, and 3 the weight 4 consists of a plate resting as a set-in piece within the rim ring 3 of the bellows 1, and is shaped to provide openings 3' for allowing the air to pass. Preferably said base plate is of polygonal shape so that it does not fill the ring entirely but leaves inside the spaced lateral openings 3 which form the air passages.

The weight 4 is secured in place in the bellows ring 3 by a cover 5. The latter carries a voice producing pipe 6 and constitutes the upper covering piece for the bellows. The bellows parts of the appara- 

